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October 11, 2006 KR Blog Uncategorized

Short Takes

A cache of unpublished letters from the novelist Virginia Woolf and scores of first editions inscribed by leading writers and poets of the early 20th century has emerged in the contents of the library of Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Perhaps we all ought to join the Facebook; it’s apparently the easiest way to stalk Pynchon’s son.

Even Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like Ann Coulter. It is now officially time for her to take a break.

“I cannot bring myself to believe that I am the only serious follower of contemporary poetry who is getting sick of reading reviews by young literary nonentities posing as Randall Jarrell,” writes Franz Wright (via Conversational Reading).

There are some authors, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe – I don’t care how many copies I have here, I’m just going to keep buying them until I die (via Fade Theory).

Another free speech flap; launch party cancelled in France because of comments about Palestine?

Do you remember your first time?